Root servers question

[Adrian Stovall]

I think what he meant was "why can't I type 'dig @a.root-servers.net
somedomain.com' and get a useful response anymore?"
To which I would reply "start typing 'dig @a.gtld-servers.net
somedomain.com' instead."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Darcy [mailto:kcd at daimlerchrysler.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:03 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Re: Root servers question
> 
> 
> 
> Root servers are not the same as TLD servers, and you 
> shouldn't be trying
> to do "transfers" (I assume you mean zone transfers) from 
> *either* type of
> server. The purpose of the high-level servers is only to 
> provide referrals
> to lower-level servers. You then query those lower-level 
> servers for the
> leaf-node information you need. It's called a hierarchy.
> 
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> John Oliver wrote:
> 
> > Why does a transfer of the root servers give a list of
> > ?.root-servers.net when querying against them returns 
> useless info, and
> > you apparently need to query ?.gtld-servers.net to get useful
> > responses?  Why aren't the root-servers.net hosts CNAMEs for the
> > gtld-servers.net hosts, or vice-versa, or something like that?
> >
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